Hilt and upper part of blade; the handle is made from bone and is decorated with circular studs inlaid with glass.
Stead 1979 describes it in detail as 'An iron sword with a fine decorated hilt. The blade, 40mm wide at the top, is in very poor condition and now only 146mm long - although when discovered it was complete, but in two parts, and measured 1ft 10 and 5/8 in (574mm). The bronze hilt-end is arched above and flat below, inset with panels of red, yellow and blue glass on the front and sides, and above it a bone handle covered the iron tang. The bone is in two portions, separated by ribbed iron washers 8mm deep; the lower part surmounts the hilt-end and is ornamented front and back with circular bronze studs inlaid with coloured glass, whereas the upper part is a cylindrical bone tube 22mm diameter capped by another deep washer from the top of which the iron tang protrudes. The surviving length of the hilt is 106mm.'
